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Sunday, December 18, 2016

2016 – A Poetic Year

As promised to myself two years ago - to buy one book
every month every year, this year has been fantastic with a total of 35 books
and indeed very poetic with 50% of the books being those of poetry - from classic to contemporary, from love and longing to erotica and despair.

In 2006, one for my faculty at NID had given me a feed back saying - "...learn to be poetic". Now, after 10 years I know what it actually meant and that life is beautiful and we have to make it more beautiful.

The year started by reading Crafts of Jammu, Kashmir and
Ladakh by Jaya Jaitley and ended by adding a biggest book to my library-
Michelangelo: Complete works. This book is so huge that it fits neither in the
book shelf at studio nor in the one at home – precisely explains why this book
is about Michelangelo!

Now when I have listed out the books, I see that each book has a
story associated, a story about me - my state of mind and work at that time of
the year.

It’s so beautiful to review ones year this way!

It has been a wonderful year –

from travelling across the country to making a home by
the hills

creating huge art to developing minute skills

meeting old friends to not making new

reading books to learning music

falling in love to writing poetry

So here is the list of books added to my library this year:

Poetry

1.Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and
Longing (April)

2.The Book of Questions – Pablo Neruda (April)

3.I swallowed the Moon: The poetry of Gulzar (May)

4.Essential Haiku (May)

5.Kabir: Ecstatic Poems (June)

6.Lullabies – Lang Leav (July)

7.Love and Misadventure – Lang Leav (July)

8.Memories – Lang Leav (July)

9.Bitter Sweet Love – Micheal Faudet (August)

10.Erotic Poems – Goethe (September)

11.The Inability of Words – Harnidh Kaur
(September)

12.Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur (September)

13.Mouthful of Forevers – Clementine Von Radics
(September)

14.Chasers of the Light – Tyler Knott Gregson
(October)

15.Sylvia Plath - The Collected Poems (October)

16.The Universe of Us – Lang Leav (November)

17.Bitter Sweet Love – Michael Faudet (November)

Art and Design

1.Crafts of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh – Jaya
Jaitley (January)

2.World Textiles: A Sourcebook (January)

3.I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail – Urveti, Ram
Singh (February)

4.10 books of illustrated short stories – K.G.
Subramanian (March)

5.The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal
Images (June)

6.Mudras of India: A Comprehensive Guide to the
Hand Gestures of Yoga and Indian Dance (June)